The luncheon hour at Holm Oaks, was, as in many well-bred country houses-out of the shooting season, be it understood-the soulful hour. The ferment of the daily doings was then at its full height, and the clamour of its conversation on the weather, and the dogs, the horses, neighbours, cricket, golf, was mingled with a literary murmur; for the Denn
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